-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:54:38 +0400 > Von: Alexandre Prokoudine <[email protected]> > An: Kunst Tuepfel <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Sample files from older programs for those who would > like to re-engineer
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:38 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: > > > Here's what I have found and installed in my files (gosh! how cheap > these programs were back then!): > > Really? It depends. Freehand was ca. $600 in 1990s. I didn't mention FreeHand, did I? And to be honest, I bought much of the old stuff after the release of Win95 in supermarkets ;) > > > - CorelDraw (Suite) 5.0 for Windows 3 > > libcdr already handles _all_ versions of CDR, from v1 to latest X6. > Other parts of the suite could be looked at, though. Great. If you know someone who needs test files (e.g. Valek), just let me know. > > > - Micrografx Designer 4.1 for Windows 3 > > Isn't it already supported by Scribus? Sort of ... Franz created the filter using files created with the 32-Bit/Win95 version. > > > - PageMaker 5.0 for Windows 3 > > - QuarkXPress 3.3 for Windows 3 > > - Visio 4.0 (i.e., before Visio was acquired by MS) for Windows 3 > > Doable. Good to hear. > > > I also have IBM Works for OS/2 (the predecessor of SmartSuite) > > and StarOffice 5.1a for OS/2 installed. What I forgot to mention is that both are being shipped with OS/2 metafiles (MET). > > > > If someone is interested in reverse-engineering the Maul Publisher > > file format (Maul is a desktop publishing program for OS/2 and > > Windows), the eComStation add-on disc comprises a demo version, > > so I would be able to produce sample files as well. > > The question is who is going to implement support for them. > I've yet to see Scribus team rushing to reuse libmspub. If I really thought that these options were only interesting for Scribus development, I wouldn't have posted them here ;) Regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
